Leave it to Phoronix readers to gripe about everything. I get it, Apple's closed nature sucks, but you have to get real for a moment: this is some absurdly good performance for an ARM chip. Even Rosetta 2 managed to have comparable (sometimes better) performance than a 6c/12t Intel chip and uses 1/6 the power.
While you Stallmanites whine about the lack of source code that you were never going to touch in the first place, I will applaud Apple for taking micro-optimizations seriously, in a world where software development just throws more system resources at problems instead of actually trying to solve them.
I'm not going to buy this (never bought an Apple product my whole life) but at least I have the maturity to know good engineering when I see it.
While you Stallmanites whine about the lack of source code that you were never going to touch in the first place, I will applaud Apple for taking micro-optimizations seriously, in a world where software development just throws more system resources at problems instead of actually trying to solve them.
I'm not going to buy this (never bought an Apple product my whole life) but at least I have the maturity to know good engineering when I see it.
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